3927

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Common

Look for it in brackish or alkaline sands of marsh edges and dune swales, less typically in savannas or pine flatwoods, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Spikelets pale brown or red-brown
Bisexual
3 stamens
Inflorescence a terminal anthela

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Pale to deep brown
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p154

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Fimbristylis caroliniana   FAMILY Cyperaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Fimbristylis caroliniana   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 030-07-002?:
Fimbristylis spadicea   FAMILY Cyperaceae

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Fimbristylis harperi